Re: Callistic revisited

On Sat, 8 May 1999, Andrew Smith wrote:

> For the sake of Comparative Constructed Indo-European linguistics I can
> add:
> Pites, egend vilqos trer ekhoom!
> >
> > paatar, cocruzti welhus-cos       trems ahams  -tas
> > father, slew     wolf   the(this) three horses the(those)
Is this VSO word order natural, or used simply to keep things lined up?  I
also assume that the doubled vowel is, as in Telarian, long.

> This endearing little critter lurks around the back of my collinguistic
> organ.  It has undergone a revival due to its use in a correligion I'm
> working on.  The name I'll give for it is Vekhomos (lit. 'we speak').
> Although its phonetic changes are adhoc, abeit consistant as much as I
> have made it, it seems to be a satem language (k > s).  The original
> script it is written in is Aramaic, hence q used before back vowels in
> transliteration instead of k, and a system of sandhi based on Sanskrit.
> (final stops become voiced before other voiced sounds, collapse of final
> s and r, etc.)
How has the accentuation fared?  I haven't got enough Telarian yet to
figure this out, excepting that enclitics cause the accent to shift.

Padraic.

>
> In comprehension, Vekhomos seems to lie somewhere between Callistic and
> Telarian.
>
> - andrew.
>
> Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
>
> "Break someone's leg."
>                         - Old Orc Saying.
>